Images of spacecraft photographed from other space-craft operating in outer space are difficult to come by, especially at a scale typically required for deep learning tasks. Semantic image segmentation, object detection and localization, and pose estimation are well researched areas with powerful results for many applications, and would be very useful in autonomous spacecraft operation and rendezvous. However, recent studies show that these strong results in broad and common domains may generalize poorly even to specific industrial applications on earth. To address this, we propose a method for generating synthetic image data that are labelled for semantic segmentation, generalizable to other tasks, and provide a prototype synthetic image dataset consisting of 2D monocular images of unmanned spacecraft, in order to enable further research in the area of autonomous spacecraft rendezvous. We also present a strong benchmark result (SØrensen-Dice coefficient 0.8723) on these syn-thetic data, suggesting that it is feasible to train well-performing image segmentation models for this task, especially if the target spacecraft and its configuration are known.


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    Title :

    Synthetic Data for Semantic Image Segmentation of Imagery of Unmanned Spacecraft


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    Publication date :

    2023-03-04


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    1339649 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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